Germplasm acquisition and distribution by CGIAR Genebanks
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Halewood, M.; Jamora, N.; Lopez-Noriega, I.; Anglin, N.L.; Wenzl, P.; Payne, T.; Ndjiondjop, M.-N.; Guarino, L.; Kumar, P.L.; Yazbek, M.; Muchugi, A.; Azevedo, V.; Tchamba, M.; Jones, C.S.; Venuprasad, R.; Roux, N.; Rojas, E.; Lusty, C. (2020) Germplasm acquisition and distribution by CGIAR Genebanks. Plants 9:1296. ISSN: 2223-7747
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The international collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) hosted by 11 CGIAR Centers are important components of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s global system of conservation and use of PGRFA. They also play an important supportive role in realizing Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper analyzes CGIAR genebanks’ trends in acquiring and distributing PGRFA over the last 35 years, with a particular focus on the last decade. The paper highlights a number of factors influencing the Centers’ acquisition of new PGRFA to include in the international collections, including increased capacity to analyze gaps in those collections and precisely target new collecting missions, availability of financial resources, and the state of international and national access and benefit-sharing laws and phytosanitary regulations. Factors contributing to Centers’ distributions of PGRFA included the extent of accession-level information, users’ capacity to identify the materials they want, and policies. The genebanks’ rates of both acquisition and distribution increased over the last decade. The paper ends on a cautionary note concerning the potential of unresolved tensions regarding access and benefit sharing and digital genomic sequence information to undermine international cooperation to conserve and use PGRFA.
CGIAR Author ORCID iDs
Michael Halewoodhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5122-3990
Isabel Lopez Noriegahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8272-8462
Peter Wenzlhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4657-8468
Nicolas Stephan Rouxhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-3120
Chris Joneshttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-9728
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BIODIVERSITY; CROPS;Organizations Affiliated to the Authors
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; Global Crop Diversity Trust; International Potato Center; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; Africa Rice Center; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; World Agroforestry Centre; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics; International Livestock Research Institute; International Rice Research InstituteCollections
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- CIAT Genetic Resources Articles in International Journals [108]
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- FTA outputs [1736]
- ICARDA articles in journals [96]
- IITA Journal Articles [4887]
- ILRI articles in journals [6240]
- ILRI feed and forage development program outputs [410]
- Research Lever 4: Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture [505]
- Research Lever 6: Crops for Nutrition and Health [732]